It's such a live political issue here that it's impossible for me to seperate the 'work' from the author's politics - and it just strikes me as truly bizarre that someone can premiere a work about the revolution in front of, for the financial benefit of, and as an active member of a group of people who stand for everything the revolution - in its Jacobin form - wanted to destroy: that audience would literally have been full of the people whose forebears were, with Pitt, the destroyers of that revolution.

(I know, I know, with all the things in the world today, my concern for fox-welfare on a small, cold, wet island seems trivial, but it's actually how I became politicised as a child - age 6 or 7, I couldn't understand why one social group was allowed to kill animals for 'sport' when any normal person would be imprisoned for cruelty...and then I found out about the class system..!)